That's completely false. There is a number of WSL distributions in the app store and you just install whatever. There is no default.

There is a default distro for WSL? Microsoft mostly advertises Ubuntu but that's it.

https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-announces-commercial-services-for-its-version-control-system-bazaar

Their not invented here git

Did you find something that fits this on your own? I'd live to know.

It's usable until it isn't. That's the problem with Wine/Proton. It's not a stable implementation of a well defined specification like Java. It's a reimplementation via reverse engineering of proprietary Win32, something that's buggy and sometimes changed between Windows updates by accident.

Update to a game compiled with a slightly newer version of Visual Studio, like it's happening all the time with live service games? Compatibility becomes a dice roll. Sure, the chance is high that compatibility is kept but it not 100%. Neither is Proton not breaking a game by accident. The big games are automatically checked by Valve but some weird indie game isn't.

And here comes the wonderful thing that's Steam Linux Runtime: containerized binary compatible runtimes of every other or so Debian release. All the issues about not being able to target Linux because of its ever changing nature have been fixed by Valve and yet for whatever reason Valve refuses to promote it towards developers.

They literally promote Win32+x86 emulation for Steam Frame development, a wearable platform where even the slightest stuttering can cause motion sickness and where battery optimization is paramount.

I hope Valve bring Lepton, their Android compatibility layer, to x86 Linux as well. Lepton is based directly on AOSP and not reverse engineering. I have higher hope for that.

"We support ARM hardware via x86 emulation"

Full article:

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/red-bull-confirm-hadjar-to-miss-dutch-grand-prix-as-lawson-steps-up-and-tsunoda-returns.3D3k7oc9dUwwEBZC7upjR1

Google on LSD (the hallucinate results)

Chromecast actually mostly sends a link to a google device and then launches it on the device to play; there isnt a direct replacement to that.

I'm aware of one project called ScreenInvader but it's unmaintained since about a decade. It offered a web UI where you could paste a URL from any device:

As you can see the UI was clunky and I guess it's part of the reasons why it died. Too bad, I like the concept of having a jukebox at a party where people can just contribute to without installing anything, let alone sign up for an account.

Signal have tons of money from selling proprietary licenses of the Signal code base to Meta (used by WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger), Google, and Microsoft.

All these partnerships were announced on Signal's own blog, in case you don't believe it.

When you have actual friends and you want tomeet up, just share the live location for 15 minutes, walk towards each other and you can get live updates to see where both are.